Your stupid if you pick the wrong domain

Alvin · #11 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 21:14

I think your missing the point .

No1 site has 20,000 pages and authority

silver surfers is an authority site of 500 pages+

Even I have 300 pages and authority.

There site has 1 page and is less than a year old.

Alvin

rgbartlett · #12 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 08:59

As this site is obviously just there to pickup search engines, and Google state this is against policy, can it not just be reported (and therefore hopefully removed)?

Alvin · #13 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 09:10

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Originally Posted by rgbartlett

As this site is obviously just there to pickup search engines, and Google state this is against policy, can it not just be reported (and therefore hopefully removed)?

Hi richard No it can't be reported as it is doing nothing wrong.It is just the way in which google is giving so much importance to keyword rich domains.

Alvin

Peter W · #14 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 09:16

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Originally Posted by Alvin

It is just the way in which google is giving so much importance to keyword rich domains.

It cannot be as simple as that. My site only ranks at around 130 for 'brighton accountants', despite that being my exact domain name and homepage title.

Alvin · #15 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 09:25

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Originally Posted by Peter W

It cannot be as simple as that. My site only ranks at around 130 for 'brighton accountants', despite that being my exact domain name and homepage title.

Your right ,sorry but your onpage SEO is very poor as are your tile and description tags also missing H1 tags.?

And there is probably more competition.

Alvin

Peter W · #16 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 09:38

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Originally Posted by Alvin

Your right ,sorry but your onpage SEO is very poor

I am number one on Yahoo, so I thought it was the off-site SEO that was the problem.

Thanks for the pointers.

Cathy · #17 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 09:50

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Originally Posted by Alvin

I think your missing the point .

No1 site has 20,000 pages and authority

silver surfers is an authority site of 500 pages+

Even I have 300 pages and authority.

There site has 1 page and is less than a year old.

Alvin

I don't believe number of pages on a site is all that important in SERPS especially for fairly narrow queries like 'cheap boat insurance'. After all if I'm looking for cheap boat insurance then the most relevant site to me may very well have only one page, listing its rates and with a telephone number to call.

I'm interested to know how you're defining/measuring the authority factor?

Alvin · #18 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 09:57

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Originally Posted by Cathy

I don't believe number of pages on a site is all that important in SERPS

In the words of John Mc ( you can not be serious )

Alvin

RedEvo · #19 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 10:20

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Originally Posted by Alvin

Hi richard No it can't be reported as it is doing nothing wrong.It is just the way in which google is giving so much importance to keyword rich domains.

Alvin

I think sites such as this can be reported as spam, especially if they are content poor yet sitting at No.1.

I'm seeing more of these domains popping up and reckon it's only a matter of time till this practice is filtered out. At least I'd hope so. Why do I think this? Well as Google falls from grace and becomes less 'cool and popular' people will start to look at alternatives (and there are many). This means they will need to redouble their efforts and produce better results.

Just my humble opinion.

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Louise · #20 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 11:05

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Originally Posted by RedEvo

I think sites such as this can be reported as spam, especially if they are content poor yet sitting at No.1.

But surely the site in question can't be called a SPAM site (not that I'd know what one was). Just a one-page landing site set up by someone who's had the foresight to buy a good keyword domain that immediately bounces vistors on to the insurance site to earn their commission (no different to the tactics of hundreds, probably thousands of other affiliate marketers out there).

Clearly there's nothing clever or informative about the site, but there's nothing sinister/SPAM about it either. Frankly, if I'd searched for cheap boat insurance, then it would be the link I'd be most likely to click, and why not? I can't see why I'd want to waste time reading loads of SEOd-up articles/content over multiple pages about cheap boat insurance - I'd just want a quote, so it does it's job quickly and efficiently, using a great domain.

I can understand why it would cause annoyance to get such a high position without any apparent effort at all - other than buying the name - but why would that make it SPAM? (genuine question, by the way, as I don't understand the workings of google at all and can't see what it's doing wrong).